Matthew 2:14-15

Morning is here, shouldn’t it be daylight savings soon or something. Seems like its running late this year. The week is always hard to push through but still we must remember that God wants to be part of our work life just as much as anywhere else. So doing our jobs in service to Him is the goal then. We can only ask for His strength to help us do that.
Be blessed today.

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When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called My Son.” 
Matthew 2:14-15

The Gospel writer is quoting from a passage out of Hosea 11 (written 700 years prior) which speaks of the Lord freeing the people of Israel out of Egypt. Only problem is that Matthew uses it to apply to Jesus which is pulling the passage out of context and using it in a different way. What we must discover from this is that prophecy is different from what we imagine it to be. The message and picture is what repeats itself throughout history. In other words, prophecy has a past meaning and a future meaning. 

When Abraham left Egypt the Lord God judged Pharaoh. The same occurred when Moses led the Nation of Israel out of Egypt and the Lord again judged Pharaoh with plagues. Now Matthew is showing that Jesus who is standing in the place of Israel as Messiah must come out of Egypt and a different King will be judged; Herod. 

Egypt is most often referred to as the world and for the believer, through resurrection we are taken out of the world. Because of this there must be a judgment of sin which has reigned in our lives. This is so the Lord can be King in our hearts. So examine your heart and your life so that you will know you are out of the world and no longer serving any other king.